when they form blood clots inside the circulatory system, as this can cause damage to blood vessels or, in the worst cases, trigger a heart attack or stroke. So, if chocolate does indeed slow the clumping of platelets, it could be very beneficial

severe form of eccentric exercise, more thoroughly than Professor Roger Eston, head of the school of sport and health sciences at Exeter University. Before taking up his post at Exeter last year, Eston was based at the University of Wales at Bangor, which

when they form blood clots inside the circulatory system, as this can cause damage to blood vessels or, in the worst cases, trigger a heart attack or stroke. So, if chocolate does indeed slow the clumping of platelets, it could be very beneficial

This extract is from The Runner's World Complete Book of Running by RW USA Editor Amby Burfoot. You can now preview it, free, for two weeks without risk or obligation. All running programmes for beginners are the same: they move you from walking

book Running the Lydiard Way, co-written by Garth Gilmour. In its ideal form, Lydiard's hill training takes place on a two-mile layout that includes a steepish uphill of 300 to 400 metres, a not-so-steep downhill of about 800m, and relatively flat

the final miles of a marathon, you should be able to run faster.This extract is from The Runner's World Complete Book of Running by RW USA Editor Amby Burfoot.

, what might it be at other marathons? It was frightening because four runners, all women, are known to have died of exercise-associated hyponatremia in the past 12 years after participating in marathons.This form of hyponatremia, or low sodium, is caused

permission to form FIRST. "It helped," he notes with a smile, "that I didn’t ask for any funding." By that time, he had assembled a team of four FIRST cofounders, including Murr, Furman’s exercise physiologist Dr Ray Moss, and the former Greenville Track Club